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Chapter 1524 The world is peaceful
With just a few tricks, he took advantage of the desire of the entire Guanlong aristocratic group to stabilize the world and successfully got the powerful cavalry army into his hands. Everyone was once again amazed at Yuwen Chan's political skills. It was hard to believe that this was an 8-year-old child. It was hard to believe that this 8-year-old child was actually killed by Yang Jian before.

Afterwards, everyone begged Yuwen Chan to return to the palace, but he still refused. He lived directly on the battlefield, or to be more precise, in a prisoner-of-war camp.

During this entire night, Yuwen Chan walked around in the Yingyang Army's prisoner-of-war camp. He not only met all the officers of the Yingyang Army, but also mingled with those frightened soldiers.

Later, Yuwen Chan directly ordered the defenders to untie all the prisoners, and then sent people to deliver the best wine, and got drunk all night with the Yingyang Army and the coalition forces... This scene was simply incredible to outsiders. After all, the soldiers who were fighting to the death and poking dozens of holes in each other's bodies during the day were now hugging each other, drinking without distinction, and finally simply fell drunk next to the campfire.

Many captives who were still sober clearly saw that the great Emperor of the Great Zhou, Yuwen Chan, was sleeping drunk on a straw mat with more than thirty captured soldiers. They were soundly asleep. If any soldier had evil intentions, he could just chop them with a sword and the newly restored Emperor of the Great Zhou would be dead.

But no soldier would be willing to do this because they had never been drunk with an emperor before.

For the next three days, Yuwen Chan stayed in the army, listening to all kinds of voices in the army and talking with the grassroots soldiers in detail. From them, he learned about the various situations of the entire army, as well as the character and personality of many generals and officers.

Then every night, Yuwen Chan lived with these captives and did not even return to the palace. On the morning of the fourth day, the soldiers, who had a rare few nights of good sleep, crawled out of the tents and suddenly received an emergency assembly order. Then they saw many generals and captains who were usually high and mighty, now all tied tightly to pillars, shouting in fear.

"Brothers!" Yuwen Chan walked in front of everyone and said loudly, "I have been talking to you all these days and heard a lot of things from you. I also know that there are many officers in the army who are not doing their job and causing a lot of misery for the soldiers."

"I have had people check these days and everything is true. The unforgivable guys are tied up here, a total of 63 people. Today I will chop off all these parasites in the army and give everyone justice!"

After saying that, before the soldiers could react, Yuwen Chan took action himself. He raised his sword and chopped off the heads of these generals one by one without hesitation. The blood almost dyed the entire beheading platform red.

After the initial stagnation, the soldiers in the audience started shouting excitedly. They had all suffered under these generals, and seeing these bastards all being beheaded, they were naturally extremely excited, and they were also extremely excited for Yuwen Chan.

"Since some people are unqualified, there are naturally some qualified heroes. I have also heard many names from you these days. They are all heroes in our Yingyang Army. I will appoint as many heroes as I cut off heads today. This Yingyang Army is still the Yingyang Army, the Yingyang Army of the Great Zhou!"

After saying that, Yuwen Chan really started to read out the names. They were all the names he had learned about in the past few days. They were the names of the lower-level soldiers in the army who were truly able to win the hearts of the people but had always been oppressed.

For a moment, the entire Yingyang Army was excited, and the shouts of "Great Zhou" and "Your Majesty" shook the sky. Then Yuwen Chan ordered the Yingyang Army to return to the base and appointed Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin as the chief and deputy commander of the Yingyang Army. All previous events were forgiven, as if they had never happened.

When the news reached the city of Chang'an, all the Guanlong nobles were amazed. This method was simply too brilliant. It not only won the hearts of the army, but also killed the confidants of the Yang family. Those low-level soldiers who were promoted to generals were naturally grateful to Yuwen Chan. From then on, they became Yuwen Chan's most loyal lackeys. The entire Yingyang Army was completely under the control of Yuwen Chan through these newly appointed officers. Together with the previous imperial guards and city defense troops, Yuwen Chan himself directly controlled the 22 troops. The Yuwen family's world was completely stabilized.

After seeing off the Yingyang Army, Yuwen Chan finally returned to the palace to start working. However, he had not been idle for the previous four days. The generals under Li Shimin personally led people to plow the entire palace from top to bottom.

First, all the eunuchs were driven out of the palace, and it was announced that the royal family would no longer employ any eunuchs.

Most of the palace maids were also driven away, and anyone who seemed even slightly abnormal was driven away, but no new palace maids were recruited. In the end, 80% of the people in the palace were cleared out, leaving only less than a few hundred palace maids and guards in the palace.

In Yuwen Chan's own words, he has not yet gotten married, does not have any queen or concubines, and he is the only person who needs to be served in the entire palace. Why would he need so many palace maids?
What, you mean the concubine of the late emperor, Yuwen Chan’s father?

Please, those concubines were either killed by Yang Jian or driven out of the palace. It was impossible for Yuwen Chan to call them back, and the palace naturally did not need so many people. But miraculously, the people of the Yang family were still in the palace. Dugu Jialuo, Yang Yong and Yang Guang were not dead, and Yang Lin was even still alive.

This move also made the Guanlong nobles believe that Yuwen Chan really had no intention of settling accounts with them, otherwise how could the Yang family still be alive?

Yuwen Chan did not kill the Yang family members whom others hated the most. Yang Lihua was still the empress dowager. How could Yuwen Chan possibly make things difficult for them, who had no grudges against him?

Soon, the changes in Chang'an City spread rapidly throughout the world. The people, who were still getting used to the new name of the Sui Dynasty, suddenly discovered that the Zhou Dynasty had returned and the emperor was still the same as before.

However, the common people just lamented that the people above were really playing tricks, and other than that they had no other reaction. After all, who became the emperor had nothing to do with them. They just had to live their lives as usual. Could it get better?

The ones who were really frightened by this were the local officials. They faced a difficult choice: to continue to be loyal to the Sui Dynasty or to return to its embrace.

If this choice seemed difficult for them at first, it became less difficult after the Yingyang Army was annihilated in one battle and Yang Lin himself was captured.

A few days later, the governors of the country received handwritten letters from Yuwen Chan one after another, in which he asked about their health, eating and sleeping well, etc. He also repeatedly warned them that although the court was somewhat turbulent, the local areas must not be in chaos.

So you, the provincial governors, don’t need to go back to the court for now. He will summon you one after another in a year, and it won’t be too late to meet you then. Finally, he urged for this year’s taxes and demanded that taxes from all places be paid as soon as possible, as the court is waiting for them urgently.

After reading the letter, all the provincial governors showed relaxed smiles on their faces. There was no rush to summon everyone. He was telling everyone not to worry about being killed when they returned to Beijing. And summoning them in batches one year later was to let the provincial governors from all over the country see whether Yuwen Chan really held a grudge, whether the first few provincial governors summoned would be tossed around, etc. These were all to show their sincerity and attitude.

Finally, urging everyone to pay taxes was to tell them that the Great Zhou needed them very much and needed their tax revenue. As long as you paid taxes actively, you would still be a good official of the Great Zhou. But on the other hand, if a family was not active in paying taxes, it was because they still missed the Great Sui Dynasty, and their fate would be predictable.

So after receiving the letter, everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty paid taxes enthusiastically. Some regions even paid twice as much tax as in previous years, which made the originally dry Boku of the Great Zhou Dynasty quickly become full.

It can be said that 95% of the officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty were wise and good officials who were good at paying taxes, but there were also a few guys who did not know what was good for them, and what greeted them was the unhesitating iron hoof of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

After a month of rest, the Yingyang Army went straight to the local areas and beheaded all the officials who were not active in paying taxes or who were openly rebelling. The situation in the entire Great Zhou was quickly stabilized within three months.

It is worth mentioning that Yang Yong’s brothers who fled separately did not receive any loyalty from the old generals of the Yang family. These provincial governors, who were originally as loyal as dogs to Yang Jian, captured all of these brothers at the first opportunity and sent them to Chang'an.

Yuwen Chan was also very kind and still kept them locked up together with Dugu Jialuo and others. So, except for Yang Jian's tragic death, the rest of the Yang family were lucky enough to survive. Nothing happened to them and the whole family was healthy.

But the Yang family no longer exists.

(End of this chapter)